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Title:
  evince and selection on rotated text

Status in Poppler:
  Confirmed
Status in poppler package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  1) lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
  Release:	15.04

  2) apt-cache policy evince
  evince:
    Installed: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) What is expected to happen via the attached document is that one may highlight the text that has been rotated at a 45 degree angle, one row at a time, just like Adobe Reader 10.x:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/245620/+attachment/314937/+files/m1.pdf

  4) What happens instead is it highlights parts of the line, along with others, as per the attached screenshot:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/245620/+attachment/314936/+files/Capture-1.png

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